Deck Building 2: Spread the Plague

Hello, fellow deck builders!

Wow, I haven't posted anything in a while. ><

I guess I'll start off with a new casual deck a recently built. This is a weird one. One of the coolest things about Magic is the enormous amount of possible synergies between cards. It's like playing chess, except you have 15,000+ possible pieces to choose from.

This deck started out when I first saw Ghostflame Sliver, probably one of the strangest slivers of all time.

Also, with the Premium Deck Series: Silvers deck coming out next week, this is probably as good a time as any to make a sliver deck. : )

When I read Ghostflame Sliver's ability, I had one of those "what's the point of that?!" moments. I didn't really think being colorless was a very sought after Sliver ability. But then I started to think about the more recent magic cards that care about color. For example, the Radiance mechanic from Ravnica had some pretty powerful red spells that did damage to each creature that shared a color (Brightflame anyone?). Also, being colorless has tremendous advantages against cards with Protection from a color or colors.

So, how could one take advantage of this nifty little ability...

I began by looking at cards that care about colors in general. Since Ghostflame Sliver is , I decided to go with those colors for the deck. There were two cards from Invasion that immediatley caught my attention:

Yes, I know that Tsabo's Assassin is not a Sliver, but that can easily be fixed with Hivestone. It's about time I found a good use for that artifact. With both Ghostflame Sliver and Hivestone on the battlefield, the assassin's ability becomes your own personal recurring Terminate. The same idea applies with Spreading Plague. Since colorless creatures can't share a color, your opponent's creatures will be the only ones affected by Spreading Plague. Hehe...

I also wanted to take advantage of the new Intimidate mechanic from Zendikar. This is another interesting ability that works to your advantage if your creatures are colorless. There are currently only four cards with the Intimidate ability, so I ultimately went with Halo Hunter.

Halo Hunter provides enough punch for the late game, and with Dark Ritual, the early game as well. Add to that the presence of a Hivestone and the demon will most likely be getting a lot of other devastating benefits.

So now we just need a few more slivers to complete the arsenal. One of the slivers I've been dying to include is Sedge Sliver. This sliver seems to be a perfect match for a deck, and regeneration is never a bad thing.

So this is what I came up with:

Main Deck:
60 cards

Lands (22)	Creatures (20)	Other spells (18)
2 Bloodstained Mire 4 Dragonskull Summit 8 Swamp 8 Mountain	4 Bonesplitter Sliver 2 Frenzy Sliver 2 Fury Sliver 4 Ghostflame Sliver 2 Halo Hunter 2 Sedge Sliver 4 Tsabo's Assassin	2 Breath of Malfegor 4 Dark Ritual 4 Hivestone 4 Spreading Plague 4 Terminate

It's pretty clear that you're gonna want to be attacking a lot with this deck. Hopefully, the abundance of removal will guarantee that.

That's my attempt at a quirky sliver deck. Please leave your comments and/or any tips you may have to make this deck better. Until next time!